Advisor Learning at Shell Petroleum Development Company

About the job

You’ll be in the global Learning organisation, headed by VP Learning and part of the larger Talent & Learning organisation.

The Learning organisation comprises all the capabilities required to deliver the end-to-end learning lifecycle from identifying skill & knowledge gaps to delivering a high impact learning & KM experience.

The purpose of Learning at Shell is to most effectively, efficiently, and with speed, build required and critical individual skills that contribute to building differentiated organizational capabilities and accelerate Shell’s achievement of Powering Progress Strategy.

Learning supports Shell to learn and adapt faster than the competition. The strategic focus areas include:

• Improving the foundation: License-to-Operate Training
• Delivering immediate value to business: Dynamically addressing Skill Gaps
• Being a strategic partner to business: Building Differentiated Skills
• Enhancing the impact of learning: Strengthening Employee Value Proposition
• Sustaining transformation: Empowering our Culture of Learning

Where you fit in:

• The context we operate in is constantly evolving, with a growing demand for the energy that powers lives and communities. While the mix of energy sources is changing, oil and gas will play a crucial role for years to come.
• Through investment, innovation, and a value-driven approach, our new Integrated Gas & Upstream (IGU) business will continue to provide secure, increasingly lower-carbon energy for a balanced transition.
• You’ll be part of the Deep Water (DW) Nigeria Learning team; whose purpose is twofold:
• Firstly, to protect value at the Asset and deliver against our table stakes by ensuring that Compliance and Competence Assurance processes run to expectations at Asset, as agreed with the local business stakeholders.
• Secondly, to create value at the Asset by understanding the local business needs, as part of the HR team, and leveraging the global learning solutions portfolios to deliver learning locally. This will include formal Learning (e.g. courses, assessments, blended learning), informal Learning (e.g. Nuggets, Portals, external learning sources), and KM solutions to support learning in the flow of work.

Reports to: Manager Learning IGU Deepwater

Key Accountabilities:

• Partner with your Business & HR stakeholders to understand the business priorities, skill gaps, learning & Knowledge Mngt needs, create annual plan in alignment with broader DW Strategic Learning plan and prioritize value.
• Support and provide inputs to the DW Learning Manager on strategic learning & KM needs for DW Nigeria
• Support ‘Foundational, Core to Compete and Differentiated’ Organizational Capabilities by leveraging the global learning portfolios in leadership, technical, commercial, and essential skills.
• Ensure delivery of the learning & KM annual plan considering what is already internally available via the global learnings portfolio and/ or consider other options like buying market standard, bend existing learning & KM solutions when designing impactful learning experiences (pulling on expertise and resources from broader Learning org)
• In limited situations, deliver upskilling/ courses yourself
• Driving together with the DW Nigeria business a workforce which can operate safely, compliant with local regulations and Shell global standards by giving advice on learning competence assurance options and ensuring that the Competence Compliance Assurance (CCA) processes run for your population to the levels agreed with local asset stakeholders. And aligned with the global Shell Learning CCA Governance.
• Understand the national, local and site regulations and standards affecting your population and ensure the right learning portfolio is available to them, working with learning operations and local partners to ensure delivery.
• In close collaboration with Nigeria HR, coordinate and manage the Nigeria Governmental Development fund and regular report status.
• Act as an active champion and role model on Learning Culture in the respective learner communities
• You will ensure that the capability needs of your population, identified with the Business and HR team, are delivered and measured using leading and lagging indicators as much as possible, and fit for purpose.

Key Skills:

• You will bring relevant experience to the table, either as a Learning/OD/HR/ Talent professional where you can apply your skills to building capability in the subject area or as a technical/business professional where your network and knowledge can add value.
• The ability to work ‘cross boundaries’ and build up business knowledge or vice versa learning knowledge credibly and with speed will be critical
• If you are a Technical Professional, you will have a good network at the asset/function with knowledge of the asset/function activities. A willingness to learn about the profession of Learning is a must.
• If you are Learning Professional, alongside your professional expertise in Learning & KM needs analysis, build/borrow/buy, curation, planning, change management, delivery and measurement, you must be willing to invest time to rapidly build domain knowledge and a network across the function or business.
• You will bring an outcome focus and ‘from the business back mindset to the role. You are comfortable in dealing with ambiguity and have a passion for integrating and collaborating across organisational boundaries. You challenge the status quo and drive for simplification.
• You bring a Learner Mindset, a curiosity to learn and grow, learn from mistakes, successes, and speak up openly in a safe environment.